The CHASE Fund will administer and manage the allocations to satisfy the following objectives:
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Health screening of children in early childhood institutions
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Building, upgrading and equipping of early childhood resource centres (including furniture and learning materials)
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Health screening of children in early childhood institutions
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Building, upgrading and equipping of basic schools and day care centres (including furniture and learning materials).
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Building, upgrading and equipping of early childhood resource centres (including furniture and learning materials).
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Support for development/manufacture of early childhood materials to enhance the cognitive development of children.
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Improvement of the nutritional status of pupils in Basic and Infant schools; or Infant schools and Infant departments within Primary and All Age schools.
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Support the early childhood training programmes both pre service and in-service.
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Provision of scholarships for specialists training in Early Childhood Education
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Support for local and regional Early Childhood conferences and public education activities.
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Institutional strengthening of the National Early Childhood Programme
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Special provisions to extend resource centre facilities in communities which cannot access parish based centre facilities.
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Assist communities and charitable and non-profit organizations in providing out-of-school-hours child care.
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Expand the use of radio and televisions programmes to enrich and support the curriculum.
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Support research for the development of early Childhood Education Programmes.
   
   

 
 
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